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Valery Ponomarev Jazz Big Band: Our Father Who Art Blakey
by Jack Bowers
Who is Russian-born trumpeter Valery Ponomarev's favorite musician? A clue may be found in the title of Ponomarev's first CD as leader of his New York City-based big band: Our Father Who Art Blakey. The first jazz recording he heard while still in Russia, Ponomarev recalls, was Blakey's Jazz Messengers with trumpeter Lee Morgan playing pianist ...
Art Lillard's Heavenly Big Band: Certain Relationships
by Jack Bowers
Drummer Art Lillard's Heavenly Big Band continues to spread sunshine and happiness on Certain Relationships, an album recorded in three sessions spanning the half-dozen years between 2005-2011. Of the fifteen selections, nine are vocals --by Pete McGuinness, Hilary Gardner, Andrea Wolper, Mary Foster Conklin or Dominique Eade. In Lillard's optimistic eyes, even the blues are gladsome ...
Metropolitan Gospel Big Band at Restoration Temple
by Ernest Barteldes
Metropolitan Gospel Big Band Temple of Restoration October 18, 2014 Brooklyn, NY On the CD release event for their debut album Leaning On The Everlasting Arms (Self-Produced, 2014), the sixteen-piece band led by tenor saxophonist Duke Guillaume kicked off the set with George Bennard's classic hymn The Old ...
Honestly Speaking
Label: Staff-Music
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. T B
02. Yu
03. Ku-Umba
04. If Only
05. Honestly Speaking
06. Miyako's Dance
07. Tune For Tony
08. The End
Me
Label: Staff-Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1-The Monkologist
2-Why Can't I Know?
3-Me (Ballad)
4-Footprints
5-Search for Peace
6-Brother John
7-Me (Funky)
8-Incognegro
9-The Prophet



